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You press a button to check in. If you stop, Chillswitch starts telling the people you chose, in the order you set.
A voluntary check-in tool with clear privacy boundaries.
6 people counting on you · 1 needs a look
We won't sell your data, because there's nothing worth selling.
Alerts are sealed on your device before they leave it, and our server forwards an envelope it can't open. It knows a deadline passed and which contacts you've chosen to reach, but it doesn't know what was said inside the message.
It's one switch underneath. What changes is how often someone checks in, who hears about it when they don’t, how long they wait first, and whether you're the one checking in or the one checking on the well-being of others.
Set a standing window for the walk home from school, and pause it for the holidays. Nobody has to text "You home yet?", and if the check-in doesn’t come, the people you chose hear about it.
One check-in a day, with hours of grace before anything happens, and two or three people who'd notice if it never arrived. No wearable, no sensors in the hallway, nothing listening.
Cover each other with one invite. Tell them if I go quiet, tell me if they do, and each half is answered on its own, so saying yes to watching out for somebody is never saying yes to being watched.
A long grace period absorbs the dead zones, so a day without signal isn't a false alarm. Set your window before you leave; your circle hears if you don't confirm you're back.
Alone or as a group, it's one confirm a day with a grace period long enough to absorb hotel wifi and a border queue. The people at home hear nothing unless it lapses, so there's no "landed safe" text at 4:00am their time.
Open a window for the evening and close it when you're home. One friend knows the plan; the person you're meeting never needs to know it exists.
Check-in while on the clock, paused automatically the rest of the week. Your supervisor knows you're safe, without needing to ask.
One person asks for a roll-call, and everyone answers for themselves, free. You get a live count against a known total, "37 of 41 confirmed" for a worksite, a building, or a field team.
Add people you wish to check in on. You're told when a check-in doesn't come without the overhead of having to reach out, and without waiting until tomorrow to ask how they are.
Press and hold the circle. That is the whole check-in. The clock starts again, and the circle tells you when the next one is due.
The people who rely on you are right underneath. You can see at a glance who is covered and who needs a look.
Once a day, every few hours, or only at set times: after school, during a shift, on evenings you're out.
Quiet hours keep the nights free. You also choose how long to wait after a missed check-in before anyone hears, and who that is.
Two kinds of people, kept in one place. Your safety contacts are the people who would be told about you. The people counting on you are the ones you'd look out for in return.
Anyone who has missed a check-in is marked, so you know who needs a look. You can also offer to look out for someone, and message them from the same screen.
Choose what goes with an alert: a message in your own words, roughly how long you've been quiet, and where you were when you last checked in. Each one is a switch you control.
A check-in can note where you were when you pressed the button. It is never a live position.
It stays sealed on your phone, and it is shared with your safety contacts only if you go quiet.
If you'd rather not share any location, leave it off. Everything else works the same.
If someone in your circle goes quiet, you are told, with whatever note they chose to send.
Tell them you've seen it, or that you'll check on them, so the others know it's handled.
This is an example alert. The name and message are made up.
Panic buttons, SOS sliders, share-my-location — they all need you to reach your phone and do something at the worst possible moment. Chillswitch runs it the other way around.
A circle you press and hold for about a second. Nothing to read in a hurry, nothing to unlock your way through, and a target big enough for a gloved hand or a phone held one-handed in the dark.
The press-and-hold interaction is designed to reduce accidental check-ins.
Who's counting on you, who has confirmed, and who has gone quiet, all at a glance as simple shapes and color; readable without reading.
Large targets, plain words, a tap you can feel, and nothing that assumes a steady hand or good light.
6 people counting on you · 1 needs a look
Chillswitch alerts the people you choose. It isn't an emergency service.
Four steps, and the only one you ever perform is the second.
How often you confirm, how long a grace period you want after a missed check-in, and the hours you'd rather not be asked at all.
Press and hold for about a second, then wait for the app to confirm that the service accepted the check-in.
Once the grace period passes, Chillswitch follows the escalation steps and delays you configured. A step may notify you, one selected circle, or all of your safety contacts.
Hold the switch and everyone already notified gets a signed all-clear. A missed check-in only ever means you haven't confirmed. Chillswitch never guesses why.
Most of what this replaces is a conversation somebody keeps having. Chillswitch turns the answer into one press and then gets out of the way; less time on your phone, not more.
It was always the same question, asked again and again, and it cost both people an evening of half-attention. Here the answer takes a second, needs no reply, and isn’t something anyone has to remember to ask for.
One check-in clears every circle you're in. Being in your family's and your friends' doesn't mean doing this twice, and there's no list of people to work through.
No feed, no streaks, nothing that pulls you in for its own sake. The only thing it ever asks for is the check-in you set up, because the app working looks a lot like you ignoring it.
The core of each of these is free on every plan. Paid plans add room (more groups, more quiet hours, asking a whole group to check in) and a closer watch, never a different privacy default.
Choose the people who should know when you go quiet. Nobody joins a circle without agreeing first.
Alert people one at a time, in the order and on the delays you choose. The right person hears first.
Decide what each person is told, including whether they learn where you set out from.
Answering a roll call is always free. On a paid plan, ask a whole group to check in and see who has confirmed, who is pending, and who needs attention.
Pause overnight or around your routine. Chillswitch follows your local time, including daylight-saving changes.
In-app alerts and all-clears are signed. The app shows when a signal cannot be verified.
Chillswitch works with the App Store, Google Play, and their notification systems to reach the people you choose. Like every mobile app, it also depends on your device, network, and battery.
We explain those boundaries clearly, so you can decide how Chillswitch fits into your safety plan.
The check-in itself is free and always will be. Paying buys a closer watch and more room.
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Free, not a trial
The whole check-in, for one person. Includes:
$1.99 a month
or $19.99 a year
Includes Free tier features, plus:
$3.99 a month
or $39.99 a year
Includes Individual tier features, plus:
Personal subscriptions auto-renew through Apple or Google until canceled in the applicable store. Final localized price and billing period appear before purchase.
Download the app to set your first check-in. It's free to use, and free is not a trial.
No. Chillswitch does not wipe, lock, or delete personal files from your phone. The switch records a check-in and, after the service confirms it, can send an all-clear for an active alert.
Not unless you ask it to. Location is optional and off by default. If you enable it, your phone can attach where you were when you check in, and selected in-app alert steps can share that sealed location and its timestamp with your chosen contacts. On a paid plan you can also start a trip that records a route while it runs. Your phone shows its location indicator the whole time, the route is sealed on your device, your contacts can open it only if the trip lapses or you ask for help, and it is deleted when the trip ends. Chillswitch never shows anyone your live location.
Your device creates a pseudonym and key pair. Recovery uses a code generated on your phone and never sent to us. We keep the encrypted backup; you keep the code. Neither works alone.
You get the grace period you chose. Check in during it and no alert is sent. If escalation has started, checking in sends a signed all-clear to everyone already notified.
